Just to give you guys an image of how I make my instrumentals and how I work when I’m producing my instrumentals.
I am going to tell you about beats and instrumentals. I think there’s a difference between beats and instrumentals. I think beats are different parts of music looped, using drumtracks and chords copied during the entire track. I believe instrumentals are fully organized tracks which contain a clear arrangement with an intro, chorus, breaks and verses. To my opinion, instumentals are produced by people who make music using real instruments and having a clear image of how it should sound like when it’s recorded.
Just to start off, my main focus is on the hiphop and R&B instrumentals. I began producing when I was 19. I worked on different styles of music, because I wanted to learn about how-to-do and create good quality instrumentals. I learned this in a few years. I produce instrumentals for different artists. Even though I like working with known artists, my main focus is on the young artists. I want to provide them with high quality beats and instrumentals.
I’m working with hardware synthesizers and I have always did. I have never used plugins for my instrumentals. That’s because I love to use sounds just the way they are in my keyboard. I’m not a fan of software I guess. It’s not cool to work with a lot of programs on my PC. Hit the keys and produce the instrumental, is how I think it should go. I began playing the piano on a little Yamaha keyboard that was cheap as hell. After that I switched to the Motif ES8. That’s when I really learned myself playing the piano. Such as every producer, I started of creating 8 bar samples as music parts. I just played this over and over to create a beat. I’m using a MOX8 synthesizer at the time. I was dragging my 50kg Motif to shows and rehearsals. Even though it has not as much sounds as the Motif it’s easier to transport to giggs and shows. All my instrumentals are produced with sounds out of the MOX8 Yamaha synthesizer.
In time I taught myself how to produce a full instrumental. What should the intro sound like? When do I turn to a break? Even though it’s just about the arrangement of the tracks. How do you think I produce all of these parts? I’m going to tell you how I begin with an instrumental and what’s, to my opinion, the best way to produce these bridges, breaks, bridge or chorus.
1st, I know many producer start a track by using drums. I’m a musician and I know that basslines and drums are essential to each other. Then the bassline is mostly related to the chords and melodies of a song. I always start my instrumentals with the chords and melodies. When I finished this, I play in the bass. I like to make it groovy, but I look forward to see what vocals could be added to the instrumental. You’re not going to like a bassline which conflicts the vocal parts. If you do this, it could screw up the track and finish it as overproduced. When I’m done tapen these parts I add the drums. I have taught myself how to play keyboard drums. This helps me getting a good visual of how the end result of a verse is going to sound like. When I played this in my head, I’m begin adding the kick and snare. Then I record the hihats, crashes and even toms. If it’s possible, I try to create all of this in just one tape.
After I produced the basic parts of the instrumentals, I start brainstorming about the bridge and chorus. I use different chord play sometimes, so then I have to start from scratch again, but if you just record a stringsection or lead, you can fill it up too. The chorus and verses are most times the same. What I do is add a lead or add some strings and different basslines, just to give it a few more sounds. That’s the part that’s easy if you get a good lead. Once again, don’t create your track overproduced. Get in the head of the songwriter and try to think ahead.
Now the break is a very cool part of the instrumental. That’s because you can change the chords again and make it sound a lot different than the rest of the track. You start all over again and try to create a nice break which goes to the last chorus. In my instrumentals, the last chorus is always a sort of climax in the track. When you create a break in the track and you use different chords, make sure you stay in the same key.
The most important thing is to stay patienced, when you’re creating beats or instrumentals. I can work on an instrumental for 2 hours, but I have days that I work 8 hours of even a few days on an instrumental. So don’t rush it. The other important thing is to really feel your track. Get in it and live your track. Dance to it, vibe on it, rap or sing to it, whatever. It gives you more fun in producing instrumentals and keeps you motivated at all times.
One other thing I use in de proces of creating instrumentals is letting other people vibe on it. Some of my friends play guitar and I play the keys myself. I let other people who make music do their thing on my tracks and work together with them. I like creating a track when someone else created the basics of it.
Just like everyone, I got my inspiration from different producers. They made me start creating music. If found Ryan Leslie as one of my biggest inspirations. That’s because I can see and hear that’s he plays an instrument. The tracks with a lot of musicality in it are most times produced by real musicians. They know how music should sound like. I play the keys in Eroyal And The Kingsz and I’m a musician too. I also produce the songs. During the proces of producing these tracks I keep in mind the sounds I use and how they sound like on live performances. When people play your music as if it are number one records and they play it along with you, it gives you a good feeling.
All my instrumental are to be bought at Robin Wesley Productions and robinwesleyinstrumentals.com. The websites went online in January 2012. The reason why I did this is because I want to make my music worldwide en give people the opportunity to create their own song with it. The high quality beats are offert for low prices as you can see. I understand people think it’s a big step to purchase an instrumental when they are not certain they can pull out a hit with it. Take a good look from my standards. You have the chance to buy the instrumental when you already have made the lyrics to it, when you listened the tracks on the mediaplayer at robinwesleyinstrumentals.com. I put a lot of time in it. If you don’t see it the way I do, you should take a look on the other producers websites and compare these to the music on de webpage. If you took a good look at the information I wrote above, you’ll definiatly hear the difference.
I’m not going to turn things around. In the past I purchases beats too. I wanted to create my own music, after I used this beats for songwriting and rapping. Since then, I bought a lot of synthesizers, computer, DAW and other gear. If you have a hart for music and you have ambitions in the industry of music, you’ll have to pay up for something.
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